We can have, and we need, both science and religion

The primal world (energy or will) belongs to both the physicist and the theologian. Naturalism can be enlarged to theological materialism. Life and the world is evolving toward Godhood. Evolution never ends, it moves inevitably in a pattern---even though it has its random elements---and the pattern has a discernible direction, in spite of instances of stagnation and retreat---toward higher and higher more effective living forms, always evolving toward ascending levels of Godhood. We can have biological idealism grounded in naturalism, we can have, and we need, both science and religion. We need more than postmodernism in the academic world, hedonism promoted by the Big Media, modern liberalism on the left, libertarianism on the right, or totalitarian Marxism.

Updating Burke's moral imagination and defining natural evolutionary conservatism and romantic realism

Updating Burke's moral imagination in light of the sociobiological definition of human nature and the biological origin of social behavior, we can affirm an evolutionary conservatism and romantic realism basically derived from the genes holding culture on a leash. As Edward O. Wilson said “...the leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool. The brain is a product of evolution. Human behavior is the circuitous technique by which human genetic material has been and will be kept intact.”

We can then see how evolutionary conservatism derives from human nature being in reality genetically ethnocentric, even xenophobic, as well as being kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection.

We can see how romantic realism derives from updating Wilson's idea that morality has no other demonstrable ultimate function than the successful survival and reproduction of the genes and by adding that we are also aided in evolution by an inward, purely physical activation to materially evolve toward ascending levels of Godhood.

We can get out from under the idea of original sin and see that real human nature is good. Our moral imagination can affirm a realistic yet romantic natural rights or civil rights movement that promotes an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, with each ethnostate protected from marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, Marxists, etc. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states. Multicultural multi-ethnic societies are a zero sum game where the gain of one ethnic group is offset by the loss of another ethnic group, with much cruel social discord in the process. Ethnostates are in harmony with the biological origin of social behavior and in accord with real human nature.

This updates Burke's moral imagination and defines natural evolutionary conservatism and romantic realism.

The “innovation” in metaphysics comes from the Evolutionary Outward Path

Spirit” IS matter, but the highest epiphenomenal matter, it “dominates” matter in that it can also be defined as the Will To Godhood, or Tirips, activating within life---so there is no need for a duality here. And, again, evolution is not “blind and pointless.” The lesser CAN evolve into the higher, just as the child grows to be a man. The Logos is definition or principle only, which is less than the Object God which the Logos defines. It is time to affirm the real thing, not merely the definition of the real thing. Matter CAN create the Spirit and Soul and Godhood out of itself.

Who says “there is no innovation in metaphysics?” Perhaps not in the religions that stem from the Perennial Tradition, but they are all of the non-material spiritual Involutionary Inward Path. The “innovation” in metaphysics come from the Evolutionary Outward Path, which is really a recognition of the sacred direction of material evolution to ascending levels of Godhood.

The Twofold Path and the nature of the Sacred Cause (from the archive)

The Will or Tirips within matter seeks to materially evolve to Godhood by activating matter to do so, which is then shaped by evolution and natural selection. As long as we are alive every cell in our body demands survival and reproductive success. This natural activation, which I call Tirips, can be blocked, subverted, or it can be unknown to us, but it can't legitimately be intellectually or instinctively denied. This cause is not like the child of Gods, it is more like the Mother of Gods, like a Materia-Spiritus giving birth to evolving matter which can then evolve to ascending levels of Father Godhood. The matter and supermatter which do not succeed in evolving to Godhood can fall back to Primal Matter and can try again. And so the cosmos acts. This religious perspective can harmonize with natural science theories of the origin of the universe, with the Will or Tirips added.

“External alchemy” is the material and super-material ongoing evolution of human beings all the way to Godhood by way of the Evolutionary Outward Path, whereas “internal alchemy” is the traditional way of seeking the “God” Within of the “Soul” by way of the Involutionary Inward Path---the “spiritual” God Within of the Soul is inwardly and materially experienced as bliss when all the material desires are gotten rid of by ascetics, like Christ or Buddha, which, alas, blocks evolving matter from evolving to ascending levels of Godhood.

“Alchemy” denotes the remaining mystery of these goals, now merged with the modern sciences of chemistry, biology, genetics, and so on in the Outward Path of material evolution toward Godhood.

Artists of evolutionary realism (from the archive)

I think that the artists of evolutionary realism will have the story, history, philosophy, and religious structure of the material evolution of life on earth to ascending levels of Godhood in the cosmos. This is the new iconology. Modernist art, now collapsed, and postmodern art, going nowhere, had no story, no history, nothing but the individual sensations and conceptions of individual artists who nevertheless conformed to the anarchy and nihilism of the times, while rejecting realist art and rejecting the moral imagination in art which Burke and Kirk affirmed.

There has been a beginning in the “classical realism” promoted by the American Arts quarterly, but the artists need to find a more profound subject for our evolutionary age. Great art has always been based in the affirmation of the sacred. Human history is not enough, sacredness is required. Sacred evolution is the channel of the narration. The ordered material evolution of life on earth to ascending levels of Godhood in the cosmos provides the change needed within conservatism. Godhood is a distant goal but it is possible to better see and affirm the distant ideal through art---politics enters there. 

Speculation on religious origins (from the archive)

Perhaps in the distant past Proto-Indo-European warriors of the mythical Hyperborea discovered techniques for helping them to endure distress before battle without mental disturbance, which gave them advantage over their competitors. Specialists in these techniques developed, teaching initiated warriors etc. Gradually this class of specialists became a priest class.

As long as the techniques for helping warriors to endure distress were used for the warrior purposes, the great metaphysical error was undeveloped. This was perhaps the high point in ancient Indo-European Civilization, that is, when the Inward Soul was reached primarily for the purpose of helping warriors to victory. When attaining the Soul Within became an end in itself decline set in. The priest class became ascendant over the warrior class. The Soul Within was declared the Kingdom of God Within, and the primary purpose of existence was now to attain this God or Soul Within. Material life, including the warrior life, was degraded and the Great Spiritual Blockade of material life and material evolution began in earnest.

All the Revealed Religions followed this Inward Path in what has since been called the Perennial Philosophy. Perhaps some branches sought to return the balance between warriors and priests. Perhaps Zarathushtra, or his ancestors, diverged from the main group for this reason. But all branches continued the great error of defining the Soul Within as God, and all branches continued the Great Spiritual Blockade against the material world.

Theological materialism seeks to address this ancient error. Tirips (formerly the Spirit which could be called the Spark of the Soul) is defined as the inward material force activating material life to evolve toward Godhood.

I do not reject the Soul Within as the secularists do, I affirm the Soul Within as the Involutionary Inward Path perhaps first discovered by ancient Proto-Indo-Europeans and later continued in the revealed religions. I define Godhood as that which we must materially evolve to, activated by Tirips Within, which is the Evolutionary Outward Path to Godhood.

We could describe that period when the Soul Within was declared God as a great ancient metaphysical error which over time led to general decline.

Two great religiopolitical blockades to overcome or synthesize

The Great Spiritual Blockade was created by the religious founders as the ascetic discipline for ridding the body of the desires of the flesh so as to experience the bliss of the God Within. The basic morals and values of Christ and Buddha came from this source.

The Great Biological Blockade was created by modern liberalism and cultural Marxism designed around the idea that human nature and human behavior is created by culture and not by biology. The basic morals and values of modern liberalism and cultural Marxism came from this source.

Theological materialism unblocks or synthesizes both these blockades.

Regarding the Great Spiritual Blockade, we can find only the mirror of Godhood inwardly, we cannot find real Godhood by ascetic contemplation only. In the Twofold Path the inward God may be a good start but is not the place to stop, even if, after great ascetic discipline, the experience of the inward god is blissful. We need to evolve in the material and supermaterial world to reach the real Godhood which was first only mirrored inwardly.

As to the Great Biological Blockade, as long as we are alive every cell in our body demands survival and reproductive success. This natural activation can be blocked, subverted, or it can be unknown to us, but it can't legitimately be intellectually or instinctively denied. As sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson said, "The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool. The brain is a product of evolution. Human behavior . .is the circuitous technique by which human genetic material has been and will be kept intact...”

We can adapt our Constitutional separation of powers and states to a deeper sociobiological knowledge. If real kin and ethnic-centered human nature is allowed to be what it is, it would naturally lead to regionalism, localism, general conservative values, eventually ethnostates, and finally an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, protected from marauding imperialists, supremacists, and global money grubbers, with a defensive federalism.

Why and how there need not be tension between the material, the spiritual, science, and the political

Richard Fletcher tells us in “The Barbarian Conversion” how the Eusebian accommodation between church (Christianity) and state (Rome) in the fourth century was an intellectual marvel. Eusebius showed how the city of earth became the city of God and how the monarchy of emperor Constantine brought the kingdom of God to men. That accommodation between church and empire became the cornerstone for political theology.

The Eastern church mainly affirmed that harmony, but in 413 Augustine objected and said there is a material city of man and spiritual city of God and Christians were not of this world, which thereafter brought a tension to Western Christianity between church and state.

Monastic loving Augustine was thinking more like Christ, just as Christ resembled Buddha, who believed that material desires are hell and the religious path is to rid the body of all material desires, that was the way to see or experience the bliss of nirvana, which Christ called the God Within. So Augustine was affirming Eastern Buddhism perhaps without knowing it when he objected to the Eusebian accommodation between church (Christianity) and state (Rome).

Both had it wrong. The separation between the material and the spiritual in all the revealed religions was a big metaphysical error, which set up a great spiritual blockade against the material and supermaterial evolution of life to ascending levels of real material-supermaterial Godhood.

So there need not be that tension between the material and the spiritual just as there need not be that tension between religion and science and the political. A better more real and more natural formula is to follow the biological origin of social behavior and kin and ethnic centered human nature. That can lead us to affirm a harmonious ethnopluralism of ethnostates in politics, evolutionary realism in art, and theological materialism in religion and philosophy.

The body and object in evolutionary realism

The function of great art is to bring the lower to the higher, to evolve to Godhood. The body represents becoming-being, object, as contrasted with thought, or abstract thought. When God is an object, a superior body, then the body can come forward as a sacred symbol.

When the “soul” is opposed to the body then the body is demeaned. If we are opposed to the animal nature, then we downplay human nature.

The classical nudes are redeemed in the projected sacred art of theological materialism (TM), unlike traditional sacred art where clothing tends to be “opposed to nakedness as the soul is opposed to the body.” ( Frithjof Schuon). TM is not opposed to the body and the priest is not opposed to the animal nature. Evolution is the process of civilizing the beast, the animal evolves to Godhood.

In the projected sacred art of TM art can be centered on the bearer of evolution, the man-God, the superman and beyond. The ancient Greeks seemed to have used man and woman Gods, even though traditionalist priest's think Greek art was not enough informed by the sacred.

In TM we need not speak of resignation to the will of God but of the evolutionary assent toward Godhood, along with the ups and downs of natural selection and evolution. In The Twofold Path, inward art marks the descent to the will or Tirips, outward art marks the assent of Tirips and the body to Godhood.

God cannot be represented realistically because we do not know how God looks, and we probably will not know until we attain Godhood in evolution. But we can represent Beauty and Goodness and Truth in their highest human and superhuman forms and expressions---the Greeks did.

When we “exteriorize a metaphysic” or show “an image of infinity,” we need not leave materialism or the body out of the picture, because material evolution is the sacred path to ascending levels of Godhood.

Becoming Godhood in evolution

St. Thomas said that “The last end of human life is beatitude” and that the beatitude of man is the perfect act of seeing or feeling the divine being, which to humans is also the highest mode of Being. Buddha did much the same thing in advocating the non-material path to nirvana. That position undervalues both God and man.

According to Buddhism true reality is emptiness, which we can only see when we do not “cling” to self and phenomena, and thus see true reality. This is called “liberation” from bondage. The goal is to feel neither attachment or aversion to the world. That is liberation and beatitude, the description of the bliss felt from freeing the mind and body of all material desires. That also suggests hedonism, the ethical theory that pleasure is the highest good and proper aim of human life. That blissful condition of Christ and Buddha is a high category of hedonism hypertrophied and experienced by freeing the body and mind of all passion, and all material desires---which is no easy task.

Beatitude and Nirvana are are not the goal of the Evolutionary Outward Path to real Godhood, they are the goal of the Involuntary Inward Path to the nirvana of the Inward God or Father-Within, the Heaven-Within which Jesus Christ sought and found.

Godhood is not merely calculation, not meditation, not presence, not intuition, not deduction, and not the human experience of bliss. Godhood is a real supermaterial object, or objects, reached through material and supermaterial evolution. The highest act of life is not merely to have blissful intellectual intuition of God, it is to become Godhood in evolution.

Even so, in the Twofold Path we can conservatively retain or include the intellectual intuition of God, seen in the Involutionary Inward Path to the Soul-Within, but we must not be blocked there in a Great Spiritual Blockade. We must move on to the Evolutionary Outward Path, which is materially activated so that we can, through material and supermaterial evolution, become real Godhood.

Can perfection be reached? No, just as perfection in evolution is never final, at least not until Godhood is attained, and even then evolution continues endlessly with ascending levels of Godhood, with no ending and no beginning.

Goodness and pleasure are aspired to for the same reason: they both materially evolve toward Godhood

Contrary to St Thomas the natural impulses or instincts toward pleasure etc. are not from God, like the other natural instincts they lead to Godhood---while pleasure and the natural instincts are secondary as an aid in the drive to successful survival and reproduction, they are also a natural aid in evolving toward the ultimate success of ascending levels of Godhood.

Goodness and pleasure are aspired to for the same reason: they both materially evolve toward Godhood. These things do not move from the material to the spiritual, they move from the material to the supermaterial. Defining God as spiritual not only defames the material world it defames and blocks the material evolution to ascending levels of real Godhood.

Thoughts on developing evolutionary therapy (from 2014)

...The psychologist/priest role would be to understand the intentionality of the material activation within material life of the will to Godhood, or Tirips, which the person is often unable to clearly comprehend, whereas in Jungian psychology, the therapist's role is to represent the intentions of the psyche and to see or understand the “Self”. The psychologist/priest needs to take the side of Tirips, whereas the psychoanalyst takes the side of the Unconscious.

In “evolutionary therapy” the psychologist/priest would need to mediate a deal or balance between Tirips and the mind and society which we can live with. “Befriending” Tirips may be a task which could involve politically incorrect insights since human evolution remains an almost taboo subject. Egotistical human life and modern values may seem limited in the face of the long evolution to Godhood, beyond man, beyond superman, beyond angels, all the way to ascending levels of Godhood.

When Tirips is blocked it turns away from its central path and that makes for unhealthy people and unhealthy societies, and the psychologist/priest “art” is to help “release” Tirips into the energy of the person and society, making the energy of Tirips available for the individual and for society---like the martial arts, we can learn to use or turn the powerful force of the activation of Tirips away from hurting ourselves toward helping ourselves, and helping our societies evolve.

Meanwhile the mind maintains its task to intelligently help guide or “ride the tiger” of Tirips. We need to befriend the unconscious Tirips which activates the body and we need to correctly define Tirips and its direction. The great goal of Tirips is the goal that lies beyond us, at the zenith of evolution, and the psyche needs to be balanced in that direction.

“The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power.” (Alfred Adler)

That quote by Alfred Adler is not only an interesting quote, but Adler was an interesting psychologist. Adler (who freely acknowledged Nietzsche) postulated a single drive, which we would transpose in evolutionary therapy as Tirips or the Will to Godhood within material life, the activating force behind evolution and the cosmos, the most important force in individual psychology. This “striving for perfection” is the activating Will to Godhood in material evolution, which works along with the ups and downs of natural selection and evolution.

Rather than the “will to meaning” of Dr Viktor Frankl, or the “will to pleasure” (pleasure principle) of Freud, or the “will to power” of Nietzsche (as well as in Adlerian psychology), we may say that the primary motivational force within man and the cosmos is the evolutionary material will to Godhood, or Tirips.

The interesting psychology comes in relating this primary drive socially as well as individually. All men, all groups have this drive to perfection, but how do we integrate them? Our answer, unlike Adler's world socialism, is the ordered evolution of evolutionary conservatism, which can lead toward an ethnopluralism of ethnostates in harmony with real kin and ethnic centered human nature,

Here is another Adler quote: “God...is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.” That is affirmed in our material evolution to Godhood.

The Mystery of Mysteries

Traditionalism has the basic problem of a mistaken hierarchy saying that the cosmos must come from the higher, proceed to the lower, and then somehow get back to the higher.

Does God or ascending levels of Godhood at the cosmic summit of evolution have anything to do with the birth of the cosmos? This is the Mystery of Mysteries. If one does not want to give credit to a “satanic” power at the birth of the cosmos (as most material-life-hating Mysteries do) one still needs to be open to the possibility that God is not involved in the birth of the cosmos.

It is the activation to Godhood within material life working along with natural selection and evolution that activates material evolution to Godhood, it is not God doing the activating. It is that will to Godhood or Tirips within material life which has the real primal connection to the instigation of the birth of the material cosmos. This  suggests that matter and the material world may be more important than religious Tradition has thought it was.

The universe has an endless number of worlds moving and always evolving, with perhaps a few worlds evolving material life to the highest supermaterial levels of life, called Godhood. And this evolution never ends, it moves inevitably in a pattern---even though it has its random elements---and the pattern has a discernible direction, in spite of instances of stagnation and retreat, toward higher and higher more effective living forms, always evolving toward Godhood.

Higher degrees in the traditionalist school know that the Involutionary Inward Path, at least symbolically, leads to the nothingness-bliss which the Inward Path sees as a beatific Godhood, brought on by blocking all material desires. The traditionalist school does not appear to know that Evolutionary Outward Path of material evolution can lead to ascending levels of real Godhood, the great opposite of the Inward Path “God.”

Civilizing the beast of life and evolution requires getting in sync with and using the forces of material evolution to attain ascending levels of Godhood. Even so, we can in the Twofold Path conservatively retain the old traditionalist inward path God as a sacred relic of the past search for Godhood.

“The right order of things is in harmony with the order of nature”

St Thomas Aquinas had much to say on nature that I can agree with. Take these lines by Thomas from Josef Pieper's Breviary of St. Thomas:

“The right order of things is in harmony with the order of nature.”

“In the sphere of intellectual knowledge and voluntary action, what is natural comes first, and from it all else is derived.”

“Sin is opposed to the natural inclination.” 

The conservative virtues and values of St Thomas and traditional religion link up quite well with the definition of human nature coming in from the science of sociobiology, which found that human nature is universally biologically kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, and religious-making, among other things, although traditional religion left out human nature also being ethnocentric, even xenophobic, with group-selection as the primary unit of successful selection. 

St. Thomas also said “Reason imitates nature” and therefore I cannot agree with separating the material from the spiritual, making God spiritual and not material, making God not in nature but the creator of nature, and not affirming ongoing material evolution as not only the developer of nature and human nature but evolution is also the material path to evolve toward supermaterial Godhood.

Speculation on Tirips and primal beginnings and endings

The “first cause” could be the material activation within life, Tirips, or the will-to-Godhood activating material life, and then life is shaped by the vagaries of natural selection and evolution. This activation is not confined to biological life, it happens with prebiological life, chemicals, even in big bang beginnings, etc. I do not see a final cause, I see endless evolution toward higher and higher truth, intelligence, beauty, and goodness, that is, continually evolving ascending Godhoods are reached. Life can also fall back in devolution, new cosmos are formed again, always giving life another chance to evolve to Godhood.

This suggests that the “essence” of life is Tirips or the will-to-Godhood within material life.  Tirips is the “God-Instinct” (rather than the "soul") and is the highest of all the material  instincts, higher even than the conscious brain which the activation of Tirips helps develop. Tirips has been concealed under the superficial polish of civilization. We need to go back and allow Tirips or the will-to-Godhood to develop and evolve. Science needs to discover and define Tirips.

This suggests that Tirips is “rational,” within the bounds of reason, not irrational like Nietzsche's power-seeking Dionysus. Tirips could be a form of divine consciousness since it "knows" to seek Godhood by activating material life to evolve to Godhood.  But Tirips is not Godhood, it seeks Godhood and is shaped by the vagaries of outside natural selection and evolution. 

Human consciousness develops in the brains of humans which the materially-life-activating Tirips first helps develop along with outside natural selection and evolution. The Tirips theory of history says that the outer events of material life are the result of the activation of the usually unconsciousness inward Tirips or will-to-Godhood, and then is shaped by evolution from the outside, all the way from big bangs or electric universes to human civilization and beyond.

This resembles the way intellectual intuition is often followed by empirical science, that is, Tirips or the will-to-Godhood decides where it wants to go first, to Godhood, and then the body, mind and culture, and outside evolution, follow as best they can, given the various environments life finds itself living in.

The activator of life as the essence of life

Contrary to traditional religious philosophy, the material will, or Tirips, is nobler than the material intellect because Tirips is the material activator of the intellect in every cell of the body, activating life to materially evolve to supermaterial Godhood, along with the ups and downs of outside natural selection and evolution.

Good and evil, truth and error in Tirips and in the intellect are material things and objects, as are ascending levels of supermaterial Godhood as the highest success in survival and reproduction.

If you are looking for the essence of life, Tirips as the activator of life defines the essence of life best. So all the talk in traditional metaphysics of there being something, anything, non-material and spiritual is primitive nonsense.

That old inward path ascetic spiritual view of the soul and God can be conservatively retained in the Twofold Path if seen as the first primitive glimpses of God and man, but that view is transformed in the Outward Path of the material evolution of man to real Godhood.

Crossing theological rivers

Sri Ramana Maharshi said, “To identify oneself with the body and yet seek happiness is like attempting to cross a river on the back of an alligator.”  I would turn that aphorism around. To identify yourself with the traditional definition of the spirit is like attempting to seek happiness by crossing a river with no legs, no arms, and no body.  

Seeking happiness by the death of the body (by blocking material desires) as the ascetic's do for the peak material experience of bliss it brings is seeking only the death of the body, and the bliss is not even God.  

The “spirit” is not non-material the spirit is the activating material will to Godhood, or Tirips. Tirips activates within material and supermaterial bodies to cross material rivers and evolve to supermaterial Godhood. Ascending levels of Godhood are supermaterial not spiritual.  

We are activated to live and evolve by way of the activation of Tirips or the will to Godhood within life, and then life interacts with the outside forces of natural selection and evolution which shapes us genetically and culturally.

A Rebirth Of More Than Tragedy (from 2012)

What is closest to representing the Will? Music is not closest to the Will, as Schopenhauer and Nietzsche suggested. The Will or Spirit-Will, or Tirips as I call it, cannot be separated from the object or body which it activates. Tirips is the inward dynamism of the material activation within life activating material life to evolve in the outside world toward Godhood, shaped by outside natural selection and evolution. 

   

Tirips does not reduce the world to mere appearance, as does the will of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche (and most religions), Tirips activates the material-supermaterial world and is never separate from the world of objects, which are its only vehicle to attain Godhood, its sacred goal, by way of evolution.  

The idolatry of music, numbers and words has taken us away from the real world---religion, science and art are all guilty of this. It is not the rebirth of tragedy (see Nietzsche), and not the affirmation of science (see various scientists), but the rebirth of the evolving human being which is the central antidote to decline---and that is also central to the rebirth of religion, science, art, and yes, politics.

Why did God and truth become thought of as non-material or non-corporeal?

Why did God and truth become thought of as non-material or non-corporeal? Why is nothing better than something? How anti-life such an idea was. Apparently ascetics who managed to overcome or block all material desires experienced a bliss from doing so that they interpreted as non-material Godhood.

The great religions say spiritual substance is greater than corporeal substance, but since there is no real spiritual substance and is only corporeal substance and super-corporeal substance the great religions were wrong about Godhood.

Intellectual truth alone is not spiritual or non-corporeal and is not the end of the universe. The highest intellectual truth exists in the highest evolved corporeal or material bodies.

We can have Godhood and religion but they need to be directly connected to corporeal and supermaterial bodies. Ascending levels of Godhood are evolved to in the material and supermaterial world and real religion can aid in that evolution.

With a bow to the wisdom of conservatism we can in the Twofold Path retain the old ascetic Inward Path as the first unfinished glimpse of the real Godhood evolved to in the material and supermaterial Outward Path.

What defines the evolutionary conservatism that could save America and the West?

I believe the conservatives are right in affirming the traditional old ways, the natural customs, habits and ceremonies of the people, but there are flaws in conservatism that arise from ignoring or blocking the biological origin of social behavior and thereby misreading human nature and misreading the causes of the universe.

But changing traditional misreadings is not as easy as affirming them. Change doesn't usually happen until the flaws are seriously bringing the traditional system down. But the changes are often too radical and short term, which is why conservatives are usually right in affirming the traditional old ways. Changing a traditional system can also take time, often too much time in the face of decline and degeneration.

But then, we see how short a time it took Cultural Marxism to take over the culture of the United States and the West. It goes back only to the 1960s and the hippies and the peace movement, although it had ties to older classical Marxism.

Libertarianism among many businessmen shares much of the blame for the decline of America. Concentrating almost exclusively on making a god of individualism and exploiting the freedom to make money came back to bite the libertarians when the Hollywood moguls and leftist publishers and producers of New York, as well as the academic world, exploited the lavish American freedom and deformed a formerly conservative culture to fit their leftist cultural agendas. The Hollywood moguls and leftist publishers found that they could make big money while also changing culture in a culturally Marxist direction. They marched right through the institutions and they won the cultural war. It was brilliant. And it didn't take very long.

The success was made easier by the flaws in American conservatism, such as valuing the individual or individual selection over the group or group selection, and more deeply, from the flaw in religion that sees everyone as the same under God, thereby opening the door to egalitarian evaluations in social policies akin to socialism/communism.

The big flaw in Cultural Marxism, aside from ignoring or blocking the biological origin of social behavior, is that in same way that Satanism depends upon deriving their values from going opposite religious values, Cultural Marxism does the same with conservatism, both are negative systems which depend for their values on turning the values of another system upside down.

Human nature as empirically explained by sociobiology remains basically kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of successful selection, followed by individual selection. Even the smallest change in human nature and our DNA structure, for example, in our immune system, took hundreds of thousands of years---although genetic engineering may speed that up.

Even in advanced modern societies where survival is easier, the dangers of Marxism (demanding biologically unnatural equality for the unequal), radical feminism (demanding biologically unnatural roles for women), homosexuality (demanding biologically unnatural sexual life styles) and postmodern relativism (demanding a biologically unnatural relativity of values) will eventually lead to biologically and culturally diseased societies.

I see sacredness and deep religion coming from seeking to understand how life can become best synchronized with the process of evolution, and help it along. Those who believe in the complete randomness of evolution, the majority of scientists, often make dismissive comments regarding any kind of direction to evolution, usually in footnotes to show its unimportance to the text, but then the footnote’s are often emotional and long, protesting too much. I find the arguments that evolution is “non-purposive” and random as closed as the religious arguments denying evolution, information is lacking in both arguments.

I see evolution moving inevitably in a pattern, even though it has its random elements, and the pattern has a discernible direction, in spite of instances of stagnation and retreat, toward “higher and higher more effective living forms.” The goal of evolving to Godhood need not deprive us of either science or religion. The internal activation of life moves life toward evolving toward higher and higher forms and eventually to Godhood, shaped by outside natural selection and inside evolution. This may be a bit further than these men want to go, but we need to go there. I think such a drive and direction will one day be acknowledged by science and religion.

This all suggests that if real kin and ethnic-centered human nature is allowed to be what it is, it naturally leads to regionalism, localism, ethnostates, and finally an ethnopluralism of ethnostates. For example, in the U. S. this could be accomplished not by way of radical revolution but through conservatively adapting---not overturning---the U.S. constitutional separation of powers and states, with ethnostates protected from marauding imperialists, supremacists, and global money grubbers, by a light federalism.